Minh Ngọc Nguyễn (Copenhagen, 1992)
Danish-Vietnamese artist living and working in Copenhagen.
He works with photography both as an artistic medium and as a visual system of representation. Through carefully constructed still lifes and the appropriation of the visual codes of commercial and advertising photography, his practice investigates how visual culture shapes identity, desire and cultural perception.
Using everyday objects, references to popular culture and ideas drawn from decolonial image theory, Nguyễn questions the mechanisms through which cultural stereotypes are produced and circulated. His work deconstructs and reconstructs images and narratives associated with Western representations of Southeast Asia, expanding photography beyond the printed image into spatial, installation-based and performative contexts.
He holds a BA in Visual Communication from the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Copenhagen (2016) and an MFA in Photography from the HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg (2018). His work is included in public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Danish Arts Foundation, and several Scandinavian institutional collections.
